the world are most likely to be influenced by society and culture in which we exist in. Hence we become end product of the culture surrounding us. Both authors Julia Alvarez and Alice Walker were mutually influenced by their life experiences but their stories present an extreme different trend by which people adjust to a new culture. Alvarez‚ who is a Dominican reflects part of her life experience growing up as a girl in her story "Daughters of Invention"‚ which is about a family seeking a new life
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Behind The Story of how the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Hispanic American Literature Summative Assessment Savannah Blakely April 27th 2015 English III Honors Abstract Julia Alvarez wrote an amazing and spectacular novel‚ with the name of “Howthe Garcia Girls Lost their Accents.” This paper will take you through a summary of the novel‚ and how the story begins‚ and ends. It will surely answer any questions you have after reading the book. By the three articles to help back up different information
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How the Garcia Girls lost their Accents. In How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents‚ Julia Alvarez discusses the four girls’transition from the Dominican Republic to America. The Garcia’s are an immigrant family who must find a balance between their identity as Dominicans and their new identities as Americans. Yolanda‚ the sister on whom the story primarily focuses‚ must find a balance between the strict and old fashioned culture she comes from and the new‚ innovative and radical culture she is
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The non-fiction novel‚ Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez is about the Garcia family’s hardship throughout the dictatorship of Trujillo. This took place in the 1960’s. Anita is a protagonist of the story. She is only 12 years of age. During this time Trujillo governed the Dominican Republic. He killed innocent people. Every household had to have a picture of him hanging on the walls or you would be considered as a tarator. He had to be treated and respected as if he was a king. He would also
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Clothes The text takes place in India and in California in the USA. It is an upper class family. We can tell that by the expensive saris‚ the mahogany almirah and the zari that is used to the sari for the bride-viewing. There are many persons introduced in the text. The main character is Mita Moni. Later she is called Somita Sen because she gets married. She is an Indian girl‚ and she is going to get married to the Indian man Somesh Sen‚ who lives in the USA with his family. It is an arranged marriage
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to operate over his time at the company for the summer. Even though this was a slight change in operation Alvarez thought differently because he originally operated it. This minor adjustment affected the whole company because the work force eventually took sides. Job conflicts arose‚ and each group seemed to enjoy causing work problems for the other group. Eventually in less than a month Alvarez left the company. When minor changes occur in a social system‚ they are soon absorbed by adjustments
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stranger‚ who lives on the other side of the world? How do you cope with being removed from everything you know‚ and placed in a completely different culture? Clothes is a story about a woman’s life‚ which is about to be turned upside down. A marriage with a man she barely knows sends her across the ocean to the daunting world of L.A. Clothes os a short story of love‚ arranged marriage and clothing‚ with Sumita as the main character. Sumita seems like a very kind‚ yet naïve young woman. She believes
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Name Date Professor ____________________ Strayer University Parameters/Background The case study involving Julia’s food booth …. (provide background and parameters very similar to an Executive Summary in a Business Report). Julia is considering leasing a food booth outside Tech Stadium at home (6) football games. If she clears $1000 in profit for each game she believes it will be worth leasing the booth. $1000 per game to lease the booth $600 to lease a warming oven She
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Mrs. Alvarez was raised in Dominican Republic‚ where the mother tongue is Spanish‚ but soon‚ she got enrolled in a (probably private) school‚ where she also learned English. Even though the learning of a new language is better at early ages‚ it certainly has consequences in us. Julia started mixing words in both languages (what we call Spanglish)‚ but not only in her informal conversations with friends and family‚ but in school‚ what gave her problems with her professor. She also found herself talking
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convenient one. In her first stories‚ Minerva constantly fights with her father. She says‚ "I has the one always standing up to him." (alvarez 12) She is talking about her father. Everything is a constant argument with her‚ and she never lets up‚ always finding new angles until she achieves her goals. When she is a loyal citizen in her innocence‚ she "defended Trujillo"(alvarez 18) even before Sinita had finished her stories. Her loyalty begins to ever so slightly waver‚ but her love of the fight is constant
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